[Bug 646566] Protect against Pad-Parent disappearing

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646566
  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | git

Stefan Kost (gstreamer, gtkdoc dev) <ensonic> changed:

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--- Comment #25 from Stefan Kost (gstreamer, gtkdoc dev) <ensonic at sonicpulse.de> 2011-05-02 13:43:45 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #21)
> I've committed all these patches now until we find a better solution. This way
> the races are at least fixed in the next release and we can find a perfect
> solution without any pressure and possibly using a suboptimal solution.
> 
> IMHO the best solution for this would be to
> a) add a GstObject *parent parameter to all pad callbacks and
> b) add a flag to GstPad that you don't want to have your callback called if
> there's no parent (and by default that flag is disabled)
> 
> For this we have to wait until 0.11 though because it's an API change.
> 
> b) might be possible to do in 0.10 by taking a reference of the parent before
> calling the callbacks

Wanna file a 0.11 bug so that we remember?

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